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Yes I built it an it worked well.It ran for an hour and I tried to find a hearable difference between the original and the 7812-concept At moderate a volume, 7812 didn´t need cooling.Adjustment of the 12v Drain-source-voltage was a little bit tricky an I had between 12 and 80mV on the speaker (8ohm).

Result: I never liked the 4700uF/10uF an so I can get rid of it. An without it I (think I )can hear more details (Best of Sade)

Next step: Better cables, better components, better speaker, PCB

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Good to know it worked. Try a 1ohm 5W resistor in the source leg. May help to get lower offset current. I'd say about 10mV across the speaker is much better. A 10 turn pot should help fine tune it better.

It is quite dangerous to drive the speaker like this, the DC voltage ( or current ) of the MOSFET will change with temperature even in class A. Even if you trim it, when the weather change, the current through the speaker will change. If you pump too much current through the speaker, it might blow. The only safe way is to use capacitor couple to the speaker.

I cannot imagine this circuit is anything close to the word hifi. Yes, it's a single transistor amp, but for what? You might have much better luck building a chip amp. There are just too many things wrong in this circuit to even wasting time to look at, never mind building it.

One side driving is by a resistor!!! The other side by a MOSFET running in open loop !!!..............Don't even try with any decent speakers, you might blow more money than save a little money,

Want cheap and simple, look into a chip amp where everything contains in one IC.

Yes I built it an it worked well.It ran for an hour and I tried to find a hearable difference between the original and the 7812-concept At moderate a volume, 7812 didn´t need cooling.Adjustment of the 12v Drain-source-voltage was a little bit tricky an I had between 12 and 80mV on the speaker (8ohm).

Result: I never liked the 4700uF/10uF an so I can get rid of it. An without it I (think I )can hear more details (Best of Sade)

Next step: Better cables, better components, better speaker, PCB

I like that, OCL like perfomance with single end schematic.Now thats very sexy I might need to build one myself and try.

Did you know you can buy relays cheapo from aliexpress and the ones with dc voltage protection, along with a small transofmorer. Though I'm very good with amp schematic desings I have zero exprience with relays and buying them works best for me. Cheap and fast

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It is quite dangerous to drive the speaker like this, the DC voltage ( or current ) of the MOSFET will change with temperature even in class A. Even if you trim it, when the weather change, the current through the speaker will change. If you pump too much current through the speaker, it might blow. The only safe way is to use capacitor couple to the speaker.

I cannot imagine this circuit is anything close to the word hifi. Yes, it's a single transistor amp, but for what? You might have much better luck building a chip amp. There are just too many things wrong in this circuit to even wasting time to look at, never mind building it.

One side driving is by a resistor!!! The other side by a MOSFET with a some sort of closed loop !!!..............Don't even try with any decent speakers, you might blow more money than save a little money,

Want cheap and simple, look into a chip amp where everything contains in one IC.

It is quite dangerous to drive the speaker like this, the DC voltage ( or current ) of the MOSFET will change with temperature even in class A. Even if you trim it, when the weather change, the current through the speaker will change. If you pump too much current through the speaker, it might blow. The only safe way is to use capacitor couple to the speaker.

I cannot imagine this circuit is anything close to the word hifi. Yes, it's a single transistor amp, but for what? You might have much better luck building a chip amp. There are just too many things wrong in this circuit to even wasting time to look at, never mind building it.

One side driving is by a resistor!!! The other side by a MOSFET with a some sort of closed loop !!!..............Don't even try with any decent speakers, you might blow more money than save a little money,

Want cheap and simple, look into a chip amp where everything contains in one IC.

What´s it all about for me? The erotic of actually only 6 components (+PS) making surprisingly good music at ~1W fed by USB-DAC True is: The temperature behaviour of the FET has to be monitored. (A job for a multimeter with USB and EXCEL) And if the DC ripple of the PS is acceptable, the 78/79s are out and the money goes to: more filter caps

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From exprience with zero negative feedback amps which zca falls into this list, my zero nfb ocl amp yeilds very high frequency response and gain bandwith, if done well sound can be unique awesome simple low distortion and base sound quality is very hard to beat.

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